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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10.320 City Limits 7.206 The figure for Greater Kings Mountain is derived from the 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The City Limits figure is from the United States census of 1950. 1 C Pages lu Today VOL 68 No. 35 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 29, 1957 Sixty-Eighth Year PRICE FIVE CENTS 111 ' I AWARD PRESENTED GORDON--Yates Gordon, fireman-laborer at Kings Mountain post office, is pictured center as he was presented a certificate for superior achievement in discharging his duties. Postmaster Charles Alexander, left, makes the presentation as As sistant Postmaster George B. Herd looks on. (Photo by Pennington Studio) Local News Bulletins » HOLIDAY NOTICE Since (Monday, September is a (National 'holiday, repre sentatives from the Gaston soc ial security office will not vis it the City 'Hall in Kings Moun tain on that date. The next scheduled visit will he Septem ber 166h. ARP SPEAKER Mrs. T. Clyde Brown, of Char lotte, president of the Women’s Synodical of the A)RP church, will address the Women’s So ciety of Boyce Memorial ARP church here Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. I > KIWANIS PICNIC Members of the Kings Moun tain Kiwanis club and their families will enjoy a Ipicnic dinner, served Iby women of Oaikdale Presbyterian church Thursday night Dinner will 'be served at 7 o’clock. HOSPITALIZE £> Caipt. Robert G. Cb-cU) Cox, army air force, is a ipatient at Portsmouth, Va„ '-naval ho.ip'i tal for Observation and treat ment. Capt Cox is ambulatory, his father Frank Cox, reports. REVIVAL SERIES Evangelistic services are scheduled to begin Septemlber 8 at Second Baptist church, with (Rev. D. W. IDigh, pastor of Shelby’s Bethel Baptist Church, to conduct the series. Services will be nightly at 7:80 p. m. KINDERGARTEN Jack and Jill Kindergarten classes will open for the fall term Tuesday morning, Sep tember 3, according to (Mrs. (Co nran Falls, kindergarten dir ector. Mrs. Nell Cranford is as sistant director. AT CONVENTION Gene Timms, manager of Timms Stop-n-Shop, has re turned from Columbus, Ohio, where he was among W^st inghouse dealers in selling in the South 'Eastern division who were invited to Ohio to visit the largest Westinghouse factory. The convention began on Sunday. (Mr. Timms return ed here Tuesday. FIRES Kings Mountain City Firemen answered two calls Friday, The first call was answered a rouncf 8:45 a. m. to the resi dence of Fred Wright, Jr,, to extinguish hay which had ig nited.. The other call was ans wered around 4:10 p. m. to ex tinguish an auto fire on W. Ridge street. ASSUMES DUTIES Ernest Sewell will assume du ties as manager of Diane 29 Drive-In Theatre Monday. The Diane 29 Drive-In was recent-# ly leased 'by Consolidated Theatres, Inc., of Charlotte. X-RAY UNIT (Cleveland county mobile X ray unit will toe in Kings Mountain Tuesday in front of Belk’s 'Department Store dur ing the hours of 10 and 12 noon and 1 to 4 o’clock p. m. FAIR VIEW LODGE Special communication of Fairview 'Lodge 339 A. iF. & A. M. will be held September 2 for the conferring of the Third De gree. D. C. Wright of Moores - boro will act as master. DISCHARGED 3. Lee 'Roberts, Kings Moun tain barber, was discharged Monday from Kings Mountain hospital where he had been receiving treatment for two weeks for a fractured ipelvis bone. > Yates Cordon Commended For Good Work Yates Gordon, Kings Mountain Post Office employee, received a certificate of superior achieve, ment in a ceremony held at Kings Mountain Post Office Friday. Mr. Gordon has been emplo yed at Kings Mountain Post Of. fice since August 16, 1940, in the capacitl of fireman-laborer. Postmaster Charles Alexander, who presented the award to Mr. Gordon, along with Assistant Postmaster George Hord, said Mr. Gordon was the first Kings Moun tain Postal employee ever to receive the award, and one of the few throughout the nation. Mr. Alexander said the award was bestowed upon Mr. Gordon for the manner in which he had discharged Wis duties. Mr. Alexander also said Mr. Gordon, over the past years, has received several letters of com mendation from high post office officials for the manner in which the grounds and post office have been maintained. Mr. Gordon 1s * native of Kings Mountain. He and 'his wife, reside at 701 Battleground avenue. Powell Bill Nets City $32,515 The city of Kings Mountain will receive $32,515.30 as its share of the 1957 Powell Bill fund for municipal streets. Kings Moun tain’s total is an increase of $504 above the amount received last year. i Kings Mountain’s share of the $6,477,032 Powell fund kitty, was derived on basis of 35.45 miles of city-maintained streets. Other local- area communities qualifying include Grover, to re ceive $2,505.34 on basis of 2.82 miles of town-maintained streets, and Waco, which will receive $1, 673.39 on basis of 1.71 miles of city-maintained streets. MissHambright's Final tKiftes Held Funeral services for 'Miss E. dith Hambright, 76, of Grover, were held Sunday at 4:30 p. m. from Grover’s Shiloh Presbyter ian church, interment following in the Grover cemetery. Miss Hambright succumbed Saturday morning in Kings Moun. lain hospital after suffering a heart attack on Friday. A native of Grover, she was the daughter of the late Dr. Alfred Frederick and Sara Deal Hambright and was a direct descendant of Colo, nel Frederick Hambright. An active member of the DAR and the Shiloh Presbyterian church. Miss Hambright was the sister of the late Charles, B. P., J. F., and Miss Mamie Hambright, Final rites were conducted by Rev. Trent Howell, Jr., Rev. Park Moore, and Dr. J. T. Dendy. Pallbearers were Sam Strain, M I. 'Hardin, Roy Houser, Fred Cockrell, Dean Hope, Preston Go. forth, Franklin Harry, and Bill Harry. Mis. Muiphey's Rites Conducted Final rites for Mrs. Helen Gre gory Murphey, 81, who died Wed, nesday night after an illness of several weeks, were held Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock from First Presbyterian church1. Rev. P. D. Patrick, Dr. E. C. Cooper, and Rev. H. C. Mooney officiated, and interment was in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mrs. Murphey, daughter of the (Continued on Page EightJ Lithium Corporation Upping Pay Scale Area Schools Will Open Next Week Grover School Term Opening On Labor Day Grover school in the county sy stem will open for the 1957-58 term Monday morning at 8 o’ clock. Principal James C. Scruggs said he anticipated an enroll ment of 550 students, up slight ly over last year’s enrollment Mr. Scruggs also noted that a new Grover plant addition will foe occupied for the first time. The addition includes eight classrooms, a health room and office. The students will also ibe using a new dressing room and a new lunchroom. 'A short schedule will be ob served (Monday and the lunch room will‘open on Tuesday . Mr. Scruggs said a pre-open ing teachers meeting for the 19 memlber faculty will be held (Fri day afternoon at 1 o’clock. He al so said first and second grade teachers will be available from 2 to 3:30 p. m. to accept student fees. Required fees total $1.75 iper pupil, while accident insurance is optional at an additional $1.50 per pupil. Three new faculty members will be on the Grover staff. They are (Mrs. ‘Carolyn Roark and Miss Sara Cooksey, 'both of Blacks burg, S. C., and Wilbur Kiser, of Shelby. following are the elementary school faculty assignments: iMrs Elizalbeth C. MdGill and Mrs. Edith Robert Long, first grade; Mrs. Nell W. Biser, and Mrs. Patsy Whitesides, second grade; Mrs. Carolyn P. Roark, third grade; ’Mrs. ©essie Cox, third and fourth combination; Mrs. Elizaioeth Allen, fourth grade; Miss Aline iMullinex, four th and fifth combination; (Miss Piccola Blalock, filfth grade; Wil bur Kiser and Miss IDorothy Mc Craw, sixth grade; Miss Sara Cooksey and Miss Lovell Ellis, seventh grade; Mrs. Margaret Crocker, eighth grade. The high school faculty inclu des: Mrs. Theresa Holt, science and home economics; Paul 'Ham bright, agriculture; Preston Holt, social studies and physical edu cation; Miss Lillian Quinn, Eng lish; and Principal Scruggs, mathematics. Haitsoe Rites Held Sunday Funeral rites for Gus Buren Hartsoe, 51, were held Sunday at 3 p. m. from Second Baptist chur ch, military burial rites following in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mr. Hartsoe died Thursday, af ter an illness of nine months. A native of Cleveland county, he was the son of Mrs. Lillie Hart, soe, who survives,' and the late Edward Hartsoe. A former pro. fessional baseball pitcher, he coached the American Legion baseball team here in 1956. He was an employee of Craftspun Yarns and a Navy veteran. Surviving are his wife, Cora Gladden Hartsoe, a son, Gus Hart soe, Jr., Kings Mountain, five daughters, Mrs. Edgar Dobbins, Mrs. Euell Smith, Mrs. Ben Ses. soms, Jr„ and Miss Linda Hartsoe all of Kings Mountain, and Mrs. Roy Smith, of Winston Salem, two brothers, Wilford and Tom, both of Kings Mountain, and three sisters, Mrs. P. L. Mayhue, Cherryville, Mrs. Mary Mauney, Gastonia, and Mrs. John Hullen. der, Kings Mountain. Twelve grandchildren also survive. Rites were conducted by Rev. Howard Cooke, Rev. J. W. Phil, lips, and Rev. W. E. Lankford. Retailers Plan Labor Day Holiday Kings Mountain’s Labor Day observance next Monday will be a work day for most, a holi day for major portion of the business community. Majority of business firms will close for the day, includ ing barber shops, retail firms, and financial firms. City offices will be closed, as will the state employment service branch and the post office. Majority of industrial firms, including the Kings Mountain Herald, will operate on regular schedule. The merchants will be closed next Wednesday afternoon as i usual. ' nc : . -it * FOOTE OFFICIALS GREET GUESTS-L. G. Bliss, of Philadelphia, president of Foote Mineral Com pany, Manager Neil Johnson, center, and Person nel Manager Ben H. Goforth, Jr., right, are pictur ed at the newly completed Foote Mineral office Saturday as they greeted employees and their families during the weekend open house festivi ties More than 550 employees, their families and others attended the Saturday open house and plant tour, and approximately 2,000 persons in spected the spodumeme mining operation at the open house for the public on Sunday afternoon. (Photo by Willis Studio) Knife-W ielder Bound Over, Alford Freed In Wreck Case GETS DEGREE — Miss Louise Gladden, of Kings Mountain, re ceived a bachelor of science de gree Thursday front Appalachian State Teacher's College at Boone. Louise Gladden Receives Degree Miss Louise Gladden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Gladden, was graduated magna cum laude last Thursday from Appalachian State Teacher’s college at Boone. Miss Gladden received the B. S. degree in education of the acous tically Handicapped. She will toe a member of the faculty of the North Carolina School for the 1 Deaf at Morganton where she i had worked for two years. Miss Barbei Died Wednesday Miss Abbie Linton Barber, 57, died Wednesday afternoon at 1:15 p.m. at her home on Grover road following an illness of three months. A native of Cleveland county, Miss Barber was a daughter of the late Beatty Goforth and Mary Wells Barber. She was a mem ber of First Baptist church. Surviving are four brothers, O. A. Barber, Cline Barber, and j Broadus Barber, all of Westmin. I ister, Carroll Barber, of Char , lotte, three sisters, Mrs. L. M. Lo gan, Mrs. Alvin Yarbro, both of Kings Mountain, and Mrs. R. L. Hartley, of Lenoir, and a foster niece, Mrs. Catherine Spearman. Funeral arrangements were in complete Wednesday, but the fu. neral will probably be Friday, Burial will be in Bethlehem chur ch cemetery. Mayes Pleads Guilty, Gets Suspension ‘'No probalble cause” was found in the preliminary hearing of 'Le on Harmon Alford, High Point trucK drwer in the Juiy id wreck in which Dorus Bess, Negro em ployee of Foote Mineral Com pany, was killed instantly. James Mullins, Gastonia at torney, represented Alford and pressed that the case be heard, even though part of the state’s witnesses were absent. Police Chief Hugh A. Logan and a Kings Mountain Negro boy by the name of Wiggins were supposed to have appeared for ■the state, tout at trial time Logan was out of town on vacation and Wiggins could not ibe located. (Mullins contended that, even .though Logan was away, the other investigating officer, Ser geant H. L. Gladden, could not testify to anything other than what was contained in the ac cident report. John Mahoney represented the prosecution for the state, and pointed out that skid marks started at a point 27 feet from the impact point. The (Bess car Was approximately 27 feet from the impact ipoint and the .truck was approximately 51 feet from the Watterson-King traffic sugnal fight. ■Phillip, Bess, son of Che wreck victim and passenger in the car, said he and his father were dri ving south on Wat.erson street, had a green light, proceeded to cross, and were hit toy the Hoad - ■way Express truck driven toy Al ford. White handed dawn the' no prdbaible cause” judgment on the grounds tnat no culpable, negli gence was displayed on Alford’s part. iDewey Stokes Mayes pled guil ty to- charges of reckless driving ■and failure to stop for a stop sign whiCJi resulted in a coll ision with a 1956 Ford driven by Mrs. Emma Wallace at the inter section otC Dilling and Parker streets. t The details of the accident, which occurred August 3, was re viewed toy Mis. Wallace, who said that she was driving south on Dilling street and was struck by the Mayes vehicle when she was crossing the intersection of Dilling and Parker. Paul Sanders, investigating of ficer, §aid the accident resulted from a’ call about a disturbance at the Deal Street Pool. When fContinued on Page Eight) Reserved Seat Grid Tickets Offered Reserved seat tickets for Kings Mountain high school home football games will igo on sale at Principal ILawson Brawn’s office Thursday morn ing at 8 o’clock. It is the first time reserved seat tickets have ’been offered football fans, and 597 are a vailatole for purchase, all in the concrete stands on the West side. The $6. season tickets will cover six home games. Seats will ibe reserved and high school students will serve as ushers. iMr. Brown said the purpose is to provide .seats for those Who can’t reach the stadium early. A set oif bleachers will ■be moved to the west side for use of single, game ticket buy ers and the set of bleachers now 'behind home plate on the baseball diamond will toe mov ed, to the east side to accom modate supporters of visiting teams. The high school opens its 1957 .season on Septemiber 6, with Bessemer City invading Gify Stadium. City, Park Giace Schools Opening Tuesday Morning All Kings Mountain city schools and Park Grace school in the county system will open for the 1957-58 term Tuesday morning at 8:30. Half-day schedules will be ob served opening day, with full schedules in force Wednesday. (Lunchrooms at the respective schools will be in operation Wed nesday. Both B. N. Barnes, city superin tendent. and IMrs. J. C. 'Nickels, Park 'Grace principal, reported fa culties complete for opening day. Supt. Baines announced election of two elementary teachers to complete the city schools facul ty. They are Miss Louise Ken drick, of Grover, former teacher in Leaksville city schools, and Mrs. Treva Morgan, Kings (Moun tain, former teacher in High Point’s Allen Jay school. Teacher’s meeting will be held Monday. Park Grace teachers will convene at 10 a. m., while city schools teachers will convene at Central at 10:30. City schools teachers will hold divisional meetings at the respective schools in the afternoon. Teach ers in the white schools will hold a covered dish dinner at noon at Central cafeteria, a function of the local unit of the North Caro lina Education association. Supt. Barnes called attention to the fact that out-of-district pu pils who iwish to attend city schools and who did not attend city schools last year must olb taln release from the board of | education for the district in which they reside. In turn, the pupils must apply for admission to city district schools. 'Largest effected group will be out-of - district children entering the first grade. 'Mr. Barnes also called atten tion to a phrasing error in the Herald’s August 22 account of pupil school assignments which altered the intent of the assign ment statement. The correct phrasing follows: ‘"Children grades 1-6 living on Railroad Avenue north of the 'Gaston street Intersection, Clin ton Drive, Hill Street, Gillespie Street, Baker Street, east side of 'Railroad, Cherry Street, Bennett IDrive, First Street, Second Street, Cleveland Avenue and east of Cleveland Avenue, Owens Street, Bennet Street, Floyd Street, York Road and ail territory east of YorklRoad who have been attend ing or have registered at Central School, West School, or North School are assigned to East School.” Mr. Barnes said he still' antici tpates overloads in West school’s first and third grades, invites vol unteers to attend other schools. 'Following is the city schools faculty: Central: Lawson Brown, princi pal. Elementary: Billy G. Bates, Mrs, Made L. Covington, Mrs. Dorothy (H. 'Finger, Miss Louise Kendrick, Miss Marie Lineiberger, Mrs. Juanita fM. Logan, Mrs. Jeanet'e L. Mann, Mrs. Eliza (Continued on Page Eight) Giover Arthritic Mrs. Everett Plays Organ Friends Help Buy Mrs. Charles A. Everett, Gro ver woman crippled for 20 years with arthritis, says she’s "proud” of the new Hammond Chord or-j gan her Grover neighbors have helped acquire. The small musical instrument, designed for the handicapped, can be played with the use of a fin ger on each hand. The organ is being used by Mrs. Everett in one-night-a-week church service she holds at her home on Thurs days. Grover citizens donated the down payment, and Mrs. Everett herself furnishes the monthly in. stallments from money she earns via magazine subscription selling via telephone. A citizen of Grover for 40 years, Mrs. Everett admits quick ly that she is a "busy invalid.” Bad health has kept her from re turning to former duties as a school teacher and church work er. However, her subscription work for various magazines brings her in contact with many people. Mrs. Everett reports she's called down the Shelby and Kings Mountain telephone directories five times, a total of 17,000 phone calls. Mrs. Everett’s love for music and for playing hymns prompted the service she plans to hold each Thursday night. She says she wants “to share the organ” with various churches, and last Wed nesday 84 members of the Shiloh Presbyterian and First Baptist churches of Grover participated in a program at the Everett home. A program by the Royal Am bassadors group, under the di rection of Ellis Tate, featured the service. Mrs. Everett and her husband are former counsellors of the RA group. Invited to participate in the service this week are members of the Bethany and New Buffalo Baptist churches of Grover. Mrs. Everett graduated from Grover school, among graduates in the school’s first graduating class, and subsequently was grad uated from Meredith college, taugty school, and was engaged in church work. She is a Baptist. Her husband is manager of a theatre in Inman, S. C. New Wage Scale To Be Effective On September 1 ■Lithium Corporation of Ameri ca, North Carolina operations, with headquarters at iBessemer City, announced this week it is inaugurating a 40-hour work week, concurrent with a wage increase of 13 percent for hourly rated employees and is aLso ex panding company paid hospitali zation insurance coverage. The effective date is 'Septem ber 1. Bruce Thoilburn, .public rela ! tion.s director for North Carolina i operations, said the wage in | crease will effect 175 to 180 hour ly rated employees. He also commented, “We are particularly proud of the insur ance policy which covers our em ployees.” He noted that the in creased coverage includes, in ad dition to the regular comprehen sive plan, a diagnostic rider and increased weekly indemnity,. LMr, Thorburn said the average hourly wage had not been com piled. He said his company is glad to be in a position to inaugurate a 40-hour week. "Our employees have worked hard and long hours ever since our firm launched pro duction,” he commented. Lithium Corporation’s hourly wage boost is tile second in the past ten months. Lithium Corp oration upped wages last No vemiber 1. W. King Job Resurrected There is liklihood, Mayor Glee A Bridges said Wednesday, that the State Highway and Public Works commission may resurrect its former plans to install curb and-gutter from the hospital en. 1 trance to the city’s west city li mis. Mayor Bridges said he had con ferred w,ith Engineer E. L. Kemp er and had been told that the highway commission, which first ordered the project postponed in. definitely, had indicated to Mr. Kemper it might proceed. The project was connected with the improvements to U. S. 74 to Shel by. The commission asked for enjgi neering estimates, which, Mayor Bridges said, have been forward ed. No Parking Planned On Gold South Side The south side of West Gold street will become off limits to parked automobiles as quickly as signs can be posted, Mayor Glee A. Bridges said Wednesday. Mayor Bridges said a poll of residents resulted in a 22-10 vote for one-side parking on W. Gold’s north side. The board of commissioners had authorized the one-side parking with the mayor’s poll to determ, ine which side would be restrict ed. Herald Circulation Rates Will Advance The Kings Mountain Herald will advance in circulation rates effective September 1. The single copy price will be advanced to 10 cents and the following schedule of mail de livered rates, payable in ad vance, will 'be effective: one year, $3.50; school-year, $2.75; six months, $2; and three months, $1.25. It is the first time the Herald has adjusted mail subscription rates since November 1950, and the first time it has raised its single copy price. Martin Harmon, publisher of the Herald, commented, “It is with regret the Herald finds it necessary to increase circula tion prices. However, the con tinued upward spiral in prices of virtually every product and service used in producing the Herald leaves no choice.” Mr. Harmon noted that news print, Which cost 4.2 cents per j pound in 1945 now costs 9.55 per pound, exclusive of freight charges and that ink, 'power, machinery, and other supplies have also escalated consider ably. Newsprint has increased three times during the past i year. ■Majority of area newspapers have increased their circula tion rates several times in re cent years. The Charlotte News now charges 10 cents for its Saturday edition. Many non-dai. ly newspapers in the state long ago raised the single copy price i to ten cents.